After the announcement of Barnes and Noble’s competing e-reader, the $259 Nook, Amazon drops the price of the Kindle to $259 from $279.
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Online retail giant Amazon announced during its third
quarter earnings call that it is dropping the price of its heavily promoted
e-reader, the Kindle. The company said they started
shipping Kindle with U.S. amp; International Wireless and lowered its price to
$259 from $279. Th…
After the announcement of Barnes and Noble’s competing e-reader, the $259 Nook, Amazon drops the price of the Kindle to $259 from $279.
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Online retail giant Amazon announced during its third
quarter earnings call that it is dropping the price of its heavily promoted
e-reader, the Kindle. The company said they started
shipping Kindle with U.S. amp; International Wireless and lowered its price to
$259 from $279. Th…
Microsoft had a busy week, one that saw the launch of its new mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used a European trip to downplay Windows 7 ahead of the much-anticipated operating systems Oct. 22 release. And chief software architect Ray Ozzie highlighted the future importance of social computing by starting FUSE Labs, designed to quickly exploit developing trends in connectivity software and services.
– Microsofts big news this week was the Oct. 6 release of Windows Mobile 6.5, the newest update of its mobile operating system. If recent comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are any indication, Mobile 6.5 is intended as a sort of placeholder, one that will potentially allow Redmond to gain a few p…
In a hearing before Congress, Google says that out-of-print books available through the proposed Google Book Search deal will also be made available to retailers such as Amazon, Barnes Noble or local bookstores.
– WASHINGTON — Google Chief Legal Counsel David Drummond waited and
politely smiled as Amazon, the Registrar of Copyrights and assorted
other critics Sept. 10 slammed the proposed Google Book Search deal
before a sparse panel of the House Judiciary Committee. Then, late in
the hearing, he dropped…
A report from Gartner shows the printer and copier market took a big hit worldwide in the first half of 2009, dropping 20 percent in comparison to the first half of 2008.
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According to a survey by information
technology research firm Gartner, Inc., the worldwide combined printer, copier and multifunctional product
(MFP) shipments market totalled 51.3 million units in the first half of 2009, a
20.2 per cent decline over first half of 2008 shipments. …
High Tech Computer (HTC), the Taiwan smartphone maker known for its popular devices running the Google Android operating system, such as the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch, has significantly lowered its revenue forecast for 2009. The only manufacturer immune to the current economy, it seems, is Apple.
– Smartphone maker HTC lowered its 2009 revenue forecast for the year,
after the Taiwan stock market closed for the day on July 31.
Instead of growth of about 10 percent, the Taiwan-based company is now
predicting a “low to mid-single digit” fall in revenue, according to a
report from Reuters….
Apple introduces a 2TB version of its Time Capsule external hard drive for $499 and drops the price on the 1TB version to $299.
– Apple has quietly unveiled an expanded-capacity 2-terabyte version of its Time Capsule wireless hard drive, at the same time dropping the price of the 1TB model to $299 from $499, the price of the 2TB model.
Time Capsule works automatically with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard to create a simple …
Apple formally drops its legal complaint against OdioWorks, which runs Bluwiki, a site Apple charged violated the Digital Millennium Copyright At (DMCA) by posting a discussion on how to make iPhones and iPods run using a digital media application other than iTunes.
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Computer maker Apple, Inc.
has dropped its complaint against OdioWorks, the company that owns BluWiki, a
site that hosted a discussion on how users can reconfigure their iPhones and
iPods to work with digital media players other than Apples proprietary iTunes
application. The ann…
This week, the U.S. Department of Justice dropped its appeal of a court injunction prohibiting enforcement of the “anti prostitution pledge” under U.S. Global AIDS Policy.
Yahoo reports that its second-quarter revenue decreased 13 percent year-over-year to $1.57 billion. Profits totaled $141 million or 10 cents per share in the second quarter compared with $131.2 million or 9 cents per share for the year-ago quarter, Yahoo says.
– SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Yahoo Inc projected a drop in income from operations for the current quarter from the second quarter, and the Internet company’s shares fell more than 4 percent.
Yahoo projected that income from operations in the current quarter will range between $55 million to $65 million,…
A recent study shows a decline in the number of Chicago millionaires as well as a drop in nine other metropolitan areas in the country.
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